Gorantla Butchaiah Chowdhary, the NTR-TDP nominee, won 122, 699 votes, taking the election from Chandrababu Naidu's TDP nominee. The combined TDP vote (50.42%) would have been enough to defeat the Congressman who won 46.78 % of the vote. Like Kakinada, this constituency too has seen a TDP-Congress-TDP-Congress pattern since 1984. Actress Jamuna won this seat in 1989 and lost it two years later.